Firsts Quotes - Page 163

There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?

The first piece of art that I ever bought - when I could afford it - was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.